About Vision Forum Film

Vision Forum Film produces films with focus on the Swedish regions Östergötland and Stockholm. We create opportunities for young filmmakers to produce their films. Most productions draw both from contemporary visual art and film and make use of Vision Forum's extensive international network.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Yang Tingting and Per Huttner in Beirut

Swedish artist Per Huttner invites the citizens of Beirut to the screening of a short film entitled "the
Silence" that the artist has created specifically for the Volume project. The project is a
collaboration with cinematographer and director Yang Tingting and looks at how metaphysics and politics of our everyday lives
dialogue to shape our existence. Huttner introduces an imaginary silence
that mystically descends on the inhabitants of the city and stops them
from both uttering or hearing any sounds. In the film we follow women
who are mysteriously trapped in a library and who follow the political
changes that take place outside as a crippling silence descends on the
city and their lives. Drawing from Ingemar Bergman and Louis Buñuel. The Silence
is both a reflection on the library, Huttner’s Nordic upbringing and
creates a wedge between imagination and reality that compels us to
reflect on values that we normally take for granted.